Bound by a common desire to deny President Obama a second term, restive activists gathering Thursday for the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington find themselves lacking a clear champion in the suddenly scrambled Republican race to choose an alternative.
CPAC attendees — expected to number more than 6,000 from across the country — pride themselves on maintaining varying degrees of independence from the GOP. The three-day gathering kicks off two days after primaries and caucuses in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri raised doubts once again among conservative voters about presumed GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum, a social conservative and the big winner in Tuesday’s vote, “has energized his supporters and the family-issue conservatives coming to CPAC,” said Floyd Brown, president of the Western Center for Journalism, a conservative watchdog group, who works with conservative and tea party activists across the country.
“His victories may be a surprise to the GOP elite in Washington, D.C., but conservatives and tea party activists outside the Beltway are not ready to accept the designated Beltway choice, Mitt Romney,” Mr. Brown said.
Added Donald J. Devine, a conservative author and former Reagan administration official, “The mood of conservatives is disappointment that their candidates for president are so weak. They are probably confident they’ll win the White House even with these candidates, although I am not confident.
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Well, let’s see. Ron Paul won their endorsement in ’08, I’m not sure about in ’09 but he won in ’10 and again in’11, so unless there’s been some paragon of conservative ideology who has arisen in the interim, I can see no reason to think this year would be any different. The problem with all this is that the GOP establishment(same as the democratic establishment) gives absolutely no creedence to what a conservative political action committee says since it conflicts with the course of bolshevism upon which they have embarked..
Since there’s nowhere to comment on the article listed above, I’ve brought my opinion of it here. The guy writing the article has based his whole commentary on Beck’s being Beck and rattles of a list of people he considers to be conservative republicans, though many of them are rinos and neo-cons, whom are all in the final analysis big government statists who I am afraid I can not consider them to be bona fide republicans. So interspersed between his critique of Beck( who himself is a NWO controlled opposition gatekeeper) he intersperses the obligatory anti-Paul rhetoric he knows will earn himself a bonus fro his dark lords, expressing consternation that the greatest statesman of our time would outpoll by a 5 to 1 margin the hand-picked also-ran running mate of the author of the NDAA as only his latest and greatest knife in the back of the U.S.constitution. And then at the end he wraps it all up with a pretty pink bow and sugar on top by saying that Ronald Reagan would not have polled for Ron Paul. Well it turns out that it’s public record that Reagan DID endorse Ron Paul as the kind of statesman our country needed more of. So if you must, waste your time reading a poorly written propaganda hit piece, but I will tell you I told you so in advance, so you don’t think ill of me for taking notice of it.
Sorry, I was referring to the article; CPAC’s odd ending
As usual, the Old party line is beginning to see that those out in the FIELD ” JOHN Q.. PUBLIC ” is tired of all this stuff and are going after a CANDIDATE Like Rick Santorum who will speak for us, not the old party line. Time for the Old party line to step aside. The youngr ones are coming.